AMMAN: Jordan’s State Security Court on Sunday sentenced three men to death by hanging for carrying out a fatal gun attack on a church in the country’s south last month, according to Al Jazeera.
In an official statement, the Jordanian military announced that the court found the three defendants guilty of committing terrorist acts resulting in death, weapons offences, conspiracy to carry out terrorist attacks, and promoting the ideology of a terrorist group.
The attack took place on October 23, when armed men entered a Greek Orthodox church during a funeral in Hammoud village in Karak governorate.
The shooting left nine people dead and 25 others wounded.
Authorities reported that the three perpetrators, two Jordanian brothers and a relative by marriage, escaped after the shooting. Security forces tracked them down and arrested them three days later. Christians account for roughly three per cent of the population in the Muslim-majority kingdom.
(With inputs from media reports)